Quotes About Positive Errors

#1. Books about spies and traitors - and the congressional hearings that follow the exposure of traitors - generally assume that false-negative errors are much worse than false-positive errors.

Malcolm Gladwell

#2. It just goes to show, never say never, or the next thing you know, you'll be doing what you said you never would, owning a dog you swore you didn't want and walking (or carrying) a tiny, totally enchanting little dog on a rhinestone-studded pink leash.

Danielle Steel

#3. I am not stupid - I'm not young, and I'm not beautiful.

Tamsin Greig

#4. I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.

Aaron Johnson

#5. The times in my life when I have been most happy haven't been the times when I have had the most money or the most freedom or the most anything, but rather when I've been in love or in community or right with people.

Donald Miller

#6. My advice to all interviewers is: Shut up and listen. It's harder than it sounds.

Errol Morris

#7. Who can deny that all men are violent lovers of the truth, when we see them so positive in their errors, which they will maintain out of their zeal for truth, although they contradict themselves every day of their lives.

Jonathan Swift

#8. My greatest talent is calmness and being positive. I concentrate on what you can do even in the worst of times. You don't judge by last week's errors or lost opportunity.

Joe Torre

#9. The Women's Murder Club was assembled - but why?

James Patterson

#10. I am my own worst enemy. This, more than any other trait, proves my fundamental humanity.

Dean Koontz

#11. The enemies of Christ ... could not bear his independence; his "Give the emperor that which is the emperor's" showed a contempt for the affairs of state and its politics for the moral order that their self-respect would not let them tolerate.

John Carroll

#12. The power that comes from knowing the facts of history is dwarfed by the power that comes from being able to shape the stories about how that history is written and told.

Annie Leonard

#13. David Grossman may be the most gifted writer I've ever read. [To the End of the Land is] powerful, shattering, and unflinching. To read it is to have yourself taken apart, undone, touched at the place of your own essence.

Nicole Krauss

#14. Not everyone is lucky enough to understand how delicious it is to suffer,

Katharine Hepburn

#15. While I prepared to poison my girlfriend, I sorted through the previous day's post

Andrew K. Lawston

#16. Crooked things may be as stiff and unflexible as streight: and Men may be as positive and peremptory in Error as in Truth.

John Locke

#17. Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.

Alexander Pope

#18. Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.

Ambrose Bierce

#19. I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.

Hale Irwin

#20. Hell no / I ain't going to go / Clean out my cell / And take my tail / To jail / Without bail / Because it's better there eating / Watching television fed / Than in Vietnam with your white folks dead.

Muhammad Ali

#21. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.

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